Garment-suspenders.



H. J. GAISMAN.

GARMENT SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED 19110.20, 1905.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

UNITED STATES r a rnn'r OFFICE.

HENRY J. GAISMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARME'NT-SUSPENDERS.

Application filed December 20, 1905.

To all whom it may cone-em:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. GAISMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, borough of Manhattan, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide suspenders in which part shall be elastic and part non-elastic woven in a single piece of material, whereby the non-elastic parts may take the wear from the metallic buckles and other connections without injury to the elastic parts.

My invention contemplates the novel details of improvement that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein,

Figure l. is a face view of a pair of suspenders embodying my invention, Fig. 2. is an enlarged detail view illustrating the correlation of the elastic and non-elastic parts of the suspenders. Fig. 3. is a detail view of a suspender end provided with my improvements, Fig. 4. is an edge view, enlarged, partly in section on the line 4, 4L, in Fig. 8. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view of a connecting frame and Fig. 6. is a view illustrating a modification.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

In making my improved suspenders elastic strands 1 of suitable length are woven in with the fibrous strands 2 in a well known manner in desired portions, the woven fibrous threads being continued beyond the ends of the elastic strands in the usual manner of weaving, as indicated in Fig. 2. By preference the fibrous strands or threads are woven tightly at the point or points Where the elastic strands terminate so as to grip the ends of the rubber strands tightly to prevent them from slipping with in the woven fabric. This arrangement provides an integral structure in which portions thereof are made elastic to stretch and other portions are relatively nonelastic owing to the fabric being woven at such portions without incorporating elastic strands therein.

As illustrated in Fig. l the rear ends or tab portions of the suspenders, at 3, are provided with interwoven elastic strands, say up to about the crossing point 4: where Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13,1914.

Serial No. 292,552.

the webs are secured together, as by stitches 5, the shoulder and forward portions 6 of the suspenders being the non-elastic portion integral with the elastic portion 3. This arrangen'ient provides a relatively fiat and thin crossing of the webs at the back, provides elasticity at the desired part as at the elastic end portions 3, and non-elastic shoulder strap portions 6 to take the wear of the metal buckles, etc, avoids the requirement of attaching elastic end portions to non-elastic shoulder portions, and provides economy in manufacture and durability.

The ends or tabs of the suspenders, illustrated generally at 7, are made as follows lVithin the end portions 7 the elastic strands 1 are woven and the portion 7 between said end portions 7 is non-elastic, the warp thereof being continuous with the fibrous warp strands of the elastic portions 7 so as to connect with the metal loops or frames 8 that are attached to the body por' tion or webs 6 of the suspenders, so that the elastic portions 7 will be relieved from wear. In the particular construction of suspender ends shown I provide an outer nonelastic portion 7 and an inner non-elastic portion 7 adapted respectively to engage the bars 8 8 of the loops or frames 8, the elastic strips ending at about the points 1, so that the two non-elastic strips 7", 7, are interposed between the elastic portions 7, the fibrous warp strands being continuous throughout the elastic and inelastic portions of the suspender ends. Figs. 3 and 4f the inner non-elastic strip 7 is shorter than the outer non-elastic strip 7* so that substantially even hearing will take place between said strips and the bars 8", 8 In order to connect the endless strips 7 7 c with the respective parts of the frames 8, I have shown the frame provided with an open part at 8 through which the strip 7 may be slipped to pass into the opening 8, the bar 8 having an open part 8 through which the strip 7 may be slipped into the opening of the loop, and the bar 8 may be connected with the bar 8 by means of a metal ferrule 9 for holding the parts 8", 8 together and over which ferrule the strip 7 passes. The arrangement is such that substantially even strain will be upon the two strips 7*, 7 in use in the various positions of adjustment of said strips with respect to the supporting frame. By having the nonelastic parts 7", 7 between the elastic end As shown in portions 7 elasticity of the suspender ends is permitted while the wear comes upon the non-elastic parts 7 7, thus obviating the wear that would occur on elastic strands were they used in direct co-action with the supporting metallicframes, and thereby elastic suspender ends are made relatively stronger, more durable, less liable to deterioration, and economy in manufacture is elfected.

Instead of having both ends of the nonelastic part 7* or 7 woven integrally with the parts 7 one end of the part 7 or 7 may be woven integrally with a part 7 and the opposite end of such part 7 or 7 can be left free as at 7 and after being passed through the supporting frame, as 8, an be secured as by stitches to the adjacent part 7. (See Fig. 6.)

As shown, the parts 7, 7", and 7 are woven relatively thin and fiat as compared with the length, being of less thickness than width, the elastic strands 1 being parallel and side by side, and thereby the parts may be flat against the wearer. By preference the button holes a are woven in the fibrous strands and injury to elastic strands is avoided in making the button holes.

In weaving a fabric having alternate elastic and non-elastic portions in a single piece of material the elastic strands may be woven in with the fibrous warp strands for a desired distance, then cut 05 and held, then a portion of the non-elastic fabric may be woven, and then the harness may again put in the elastic strands for weaving in with the non-elastic strands, and so on, weaving alternate portions to be elastic and non-elastic as desired.

In some cases it may be desirable to make the end portions 7 non-elastic, by omitting therefrom the elastic strands 1, and to have the separate strips 7", 7", woven integral with such non-elastic end portions, where more rigidity in the suspender ends is de sired.

While I have illustrated the parts 7, 7 7, as applied to the front ends of the suspenders it is obvious that the same arrangement can be applied to the back end by attaching a frame, as 8, to the rear part of the shoulder straps 6, and applying the aarts 7 7 7 to said frame. v

Having now described my invention what I claim is:

1. The combination of webs, frames attached to said webs, and ends attached to said frames, said ends having a plurality of non-elastic central portions movably carried by said frames and elastic end portions having parallel elastic strands on opposite sides of said non-elastic portions, the clastics terminating at the beginning of the non-elastic sections.

2. The combination of webs, frames connected with the webs and each having a pair of supporting bars, and ends each having a plurality of centrally disposed non-elastic fibrous portions supported by said bars, and end portions having elastic strands woven in with continuous fibrous warp strands of the nonelastic portions.

3. The combination of webs, frames attached thereto and having a plurality of supporting bars, ends having nonelastic woven portions respectively slidably supported on said bars, and end portions de pending from opposite sides of said nonelastic portions, and having elastic warp threads woven in with the warp strands of the non-elastic and elastic portions, said elastic strands being located side by side on substantially the same plane.

HENRY J. GAISMAN.

\Vitnesses T. F. BoUnNE, FRANK RYELLL Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

